June, 2013

We maintain a set of pages that make it easier for you to find all the .NET Framework versions, SDKs, and targeting packs that you can take advantage of in your .NET apps, as we mentioned last year on the .NET blog . We recently redesigned the pages and...

Update: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 RTM has been released and is available for download. The content below is still a great description of the .NET Framework 4.5.1 and is a great way to learn about the great features in the release. Today, we are announcing...

We’ve just released an update to our immutable collection package which adds a new member to the family of immutable collection types: ImmutableArray<T> .
In this post, I’ll talk about why we added another collection and how it relates...

Two weeks ago, we published a beta of HttpClient that provides support for automatic decompression. Since then, we’ve received a fair amount of feedback, especially around the fact that it relies on a native implementation of compression that isn’t...

We’ve received several reports that our NuGet packages broke the NuGet package restore feature . In this post, I’ll explain what the issue is, how you can work around it, and finally how we plan on fixing this issue in the long term.
The...

Today we’re happy to announce that we released two NuGet packages:
A brand new Microsoft.Bcl.Compression (Beta) . A portable compression library that supports stream based compression (gzip, deflate) as well as ZIP archives.
An updated...